Exploring Mentoring Relationships: Building, Communicating, and Impacting Doctoral Students Mentoring has always been an important part of my graduate career. I’ve been fortunate enough to find a few mentors along the way that have taught me valuable lessons and have allowed me to grow both personal and professionally. This year I started a job that … Continue reading Exploring Mentoring Relationships
Month: April 2018
Harnessing the Power of Videos
Photo by Redd Angelo on Unsplash Videos are not uncommon in the world of online education. From my previous experiences, videos tend to fall into one of two categories: previously recorded lectures or supplemental videos pulled from YouTube or other educational sources. Recorded lectures are often long (upwards to an hour or more), non-engaging (watching … Continue reading Harnessing the Power of Videos
Learning to Design Instruction Online
Photo by Taduuda on Unsplash When I first started designing online courses, my first thought was “how hard can it be?” My assumption was that online classes were essentially face-to-face courses made digital. All you had to do was record the lectures, add some reading materials, a few different formative and summative assessments, and you … Continue reading Learning to Design Instruction Online
That was Awkward: A First Attempt at Qualitative Interviews
Over the course of a semester, we have been learning about conducting qualitative research. So far, we have learned about the design, theories, framework, and data collection methods. This last week, our skills were put to the test. We had to develop a few questions and follow-up questions to ask someone. My topic was over … Continue reading That was Awkward: A First Attempt at Qualitative Interviews
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